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Airlines have adopted a business practice that is also true in the practical application of your personal life. Airlines now charge you for the luggage you take with you on your trip. Air travel has not been the same since September 11th. September 11, 2001 was a horrible tragedy. Sorry to say in your personal life you begin to carry extra baggage with you throughout your lifetime because of a tragedy or traumatic event that you have experienced.

It’s baggage that much like the airlines, you pay for but you pay for it forever. It follows you in your friendships, it creeps into your marriage and affects you on your job and the way you relate to your boss and co-workers. More than that, it haunts YOU!

To make matters worse we often despise the very thing we ourselves have become because of the baggage — the hurt we carry around. We also nurture that very same behavior in our children without even realizing it. Do you know any alcoholics who have parents who were alcoholics? How often does the husband who abuses his wife have a father who did the same thing to his wife. The son may have witnessed the horrible behavior, despised his father for it, but he became the very thing he hated in his father.

It’s a vicious cycle. Women who had a baby when they were a teenager often have daughters who get pregnant and have babies when they are still teenagers – maybe even at a younger age than their mother had her.

We need to learn to let go of that baggage. You need to do whatever it takes to stop paying for the wrongs that may have been perpetrated on you. It really starts with you! No, I am not a psychiatrist. I am not someone who should even be giving advice because I don’t even subscribe to most of the theories ‘professionals’ do. I am just a person who has had lots of people take to him. More people have leaned on or cried on my shoulders than I can remember. I feel strongly that I know what I’m talking about.

You have to first purpose it in your heart and mind to forgive the person or person(s) that wronged you. LET IT GO! It won’t be easy but most things worthwhile, aren’t. I’m not telling you t try to forget what was done to you. You need to remember. You might be someone later on in life to help someone else who has gone through the same thing you did. You might be the only one who can help him/her.

You need to forgive the person who wronged you. All the hurt, pain, bitterness, anger and suffering that you are taking on a life long journey; I can assure you the person who caused you all the pain is not experiencing any themselves. They might not have even given you a second thought in years. In order to move on with your life and let go of all the baggage you have to do the one thing you never dreamed of. You need to forgive that person so you can move on. Forgiving is freeing. It is a lifter of spirits. Forgiveness is a natural high! You will feel the weight of the world melting off your shoulders.

Get that emotional baggage off your back. Free your heart of all the junk you have bee harboring for all those years and be free. If you can’t do it alone, find a ‘trustworthy’ friend who you can talk to. They don’t need to give advice to you, you just need a good listener. Also be sure the person is trustworthy. The last thing you want is someone telling your business all over town or worse, the Internet.

If you need a psychiatrist, get one but don’t buy into that ‘therapy for years’ spiel. If you need to get down on your hands and knees, do it. Whatever it takes to free yourself — DO IT!

Bitterness and regret are cancers, but they only eat away at you and not the person who’s actions caused you your pain and bitterness. Whether you are in your teens, 20’s, 30’s, 40’s or above; it’s never too late to release the beast and really start living your life. Do it now. Get off your butt and make the rest of your life something beautiful — STARTING NOW!

The very best for you, your friends, family and especially your children or children to be, is waiting for you. Be aware, not everyone wants to see you happy. Be prepared for that as you begin healing.

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Doesn’t sound like something you would do? Well the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) posted the entire manual on how they handle security at our nations airports. Detailed secrets for the world to see. The TSA downplayed the asinine blunder by saying most of the information is outdated and the public is not in any danger. Anybody believe that?

Information that had been blocked and blacked out was easily seen by using simple software to see the sensitive and secret information. The information has been available online since March but just recently made public. The blog, Wandering Aramean first reported this. They were also the ones who let it be known how to read the blacked out words.

The TSA document showed that passengers with prosthetic devices, wheelchairs and surgical footwear may be exempt from screening for explosives at certain times and to always screen individuals who have passports from Syria, North Korea, Somalia, Cuba and Iran.

This post is really directed to two groups, pet owners and parents. Not necessarily in that order.

My sister is constantly bringing her dogs over to our place so I can watch them. She babysits for her friend and her daughter is deathly afraid of animals. All animals. You can’t even have the Discovery channel on if this little girl is over. My sister is kind enough, no caring and compassionate enough to rid her house of her pets so she can do her friend a favor by keeping an eye on her daughter.

The girl’s mother has a dog as a pet. It’s just a poodle however the girl doesn’t like animals at all. What kind of a parent would do that to a child? I’m inconvenienced as is my sister because it seems we care more about this little girl than her parents do. What do you think? Feel free to comment even if you don’t fall into either category. As for me, I can’t believe how little regard this ‘mother’ has for her kid.